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The Andronikos Imperial Enclave
The World of Andronikos, once know Elysium as has known warfare, it has known ruin and it bears the scars of both. The fall of the Consensus destablished the world, it's large cities that covered considerable portions of continents were reliant on both agricultural imports and certain important raw materials not found on the planet. The Cities squabbled over the small belts of agricultural land that existed, over the hydroponic towers of Upper Jacht and the storage islands of Ilsa that fed the instaitable produce factories of the Middle Band Cities. Repurposed for war, it was not long until they resorted to outlandish methods of destruction, nuclear fires raged and the penultimate strike was known as the First Final Impact, when the orbital asteroid fields which supplied some measure of material to the surface were destablished into the planet.
The war ended and the high, exclusive and prosperous cities of Elysium, with their gleaming towers of diamond had passed away, leaving Exitium.
Exitium was a battered world, a few million survivors huddled together in the near the temperature ruins of the Middle Band Cities. For a decade they dwindled in number across the world, until refugee's from another world arrived, in starships and colonial barges, aliens from another world, with more generosity than was wise to show. It remains unknown why they would help humans, former members of the Solarian Consensus which saw aliens as a anthema to their own power.
Perhaps they had motives and what happened subsequently could be justified, perhaps the dark motives were merely rumours spawned by him, the betrayer, Andronikos.
The aliens were not naturally aggressive and assumed that as victims of war and destruction, the humans would be similar. They made a miscalculation, they were a bitter people yes, worn and fragile but burning with desire and consumed with growing paranoia. Perhaps these offworlders had set off the First and Final Impact, it was such rumours that Andronikos would whip up into a secret fervour.
With the help of the offworlders, they regained their strength, co-opting their pale frail skin with metal and cybernetics. Basic infrastructure stretched like a web across the planet, still mostly underground, they built vast warrens under the still radioactive former cities and it was here they hid their growing war machine. Starships built in underground hangers, armed with railguns and experimental fold drivers taken from stolen plans onboard the offworlders ships.
It was Andronikos who lead the bloody uprising, they stormed the xenoships, slaughtering the crews and launched their primitive spacevessels into orbit, smashing resistance apart with brute, suicidal force.
Thus was born the Andronikos Imperial Enclave, the world renamed in glory of it's revoluntionary leader.